DR. INGE PREACHES

Greymouth Evening Star, 16 November 1934, Page 14

DR. INGE PREACHES

AT HIS NEW HOME LONDON, October 8. Dr. Inge, who took up his residence at the Manor House, Brightwell, near Wallingford, Berks, on Saturday, preached at the Harvest Thanksgiving service at the parish church, Wallingford, last night. His opening sentences were: “My friends, as I hope you -will be, I count it a happy coincidence that my first day in my new home, where I hope, if it be God’s will, to pass a peaceful old age and prepare for the time when I must give an account of my stewardship, should fall on a harvest thanksgiving day, the most popular festival in all country districts. “I myself was baptised in a country church, not in this part of the country, but in Yorkshire, and all through my childhood I went every Sunday to the service at a little church, and, without in any way under-valuing the great privilege which has been mine for twenty-three years of taking part in the grand and dignified services at a great cathedral like St. Paul's, I must confess that I do look forward to returning in my old age to those associations which are so much like my earliest recollections, which must always have a peculiar sacredness, as they take one back to one’s first home and beloved parents.”